| epigastrium | (noun) the region lying on or over the stomach (just below the sternum) | - |
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| epigenesis | (noun) a geological change in the mineral content of rock after the rock has formed | - |
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| epiglottis | (noun) a flap of cartilage that covers the windpipe while swallowing | - |
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| epiglottitis | (noun) inflammation of the epiglottis; characterized by fever and a severe sore throat and difficulty in swallowing | - |
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| epigon | (noun) an inferior imitator of some distinguished writer, artist, or musician | Synonyms: epigone |
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| epigone | (noun) an inferior imitator of some distinguished writer, artist, or musician | Synonyms: epigon |
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| epigram | (noun) a witty saying | Synonyms: quip |
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| epigraph | (noun) an engraved inscription | - |
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| (noun) a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing | - |
| epigraphy | (noun) the study of ancient inscriptions | - |
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| exigency | (noun) a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action | Synonyms: emergency, pinch |
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| (noun) a pressing or urgent situation | - |
| (noun) that which is required in a particular situation —usually used in plural. | - |
| exiguity | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
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| eyesight | (noun) normal use of the faculty of vision | Synonyms: seeing, sightedness |
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| fanlight | (noun) a semicircular window over a door or window; usually has sash bars like the ribs of a fan | - |
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| (noun) a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door | Synonyms: transom, transom window |
| (noun) a window in a roof to admit daylight | Synonyms: skylight |
| fansign | (noun) a sign made by a fan, usually with the target's name on it | - |
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| farsightedness | (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: foresight, prevision, prospicience |
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| (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia, longsightedness |
| (noun) a reduced ability to focus on near objects caused by loss of elasticity of the crystalline lens after age 45 | Synonyms: presbyopia |
| fatigability | (noun) susceptibility to fatigue; a tendency to get tired or lose strength | - |
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| fatigue | (noun) labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on) | Synonyms: fatigue duty |
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| (noun) (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something | - |
| (noun) temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work | Synonyms: tiredness, weariness |
| (noun) used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress | - |
| fatigues | (noun) military uniform worn by military personnel when doing menial labor | - |
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| featherweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the bantamweight division and lighter than those in the lightweight division. | - |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 123 and 126 pounds | - |
| (noun) weighs 126-139 pounds | - |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds | - |
| feigning | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation |
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| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: dissembling, pretence, pretense |
| fig | (noun) a diagram or picture illustrating textual material | Synonyms: figure |
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| (noun) fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried | - |
| (noun) Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit | Synonyms: common fig, common fig tree, Ficus carica |
| figeater | (noun) large greenish June beetle of southern United States | Synonyms: green June beetle |
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| fight | (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | Synonyms: battle, conflict, engagement |
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| (noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | Synonyms: combat, fighting, scrap |
| (noun) a boxing or wrestling match | - |
| (noun) an aggressive willingness to compete | Synonyms: competitiveness |
| (noun) an intense verbal dispute | - |
| fighter | (noun) a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air | Synonyms: attack aircraft, fighter aircraft |
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| (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, belligerent, combatant, scrapper |
| (noun) someone who fights for a cause | Synonyms: champion, hero, paladin |
| fighting | (noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | Synonyms: combat, fight, scrap |
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| figment | (noun) a contrived or fantastic idea | - |
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| figuration | (noun) decorating with a design | - |
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| (noun) representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory | - |
| figurativeness | (noun) The property of being metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures of speech. | - |
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| (noun) The representation of form or figure in art. | - |
| figure | (noun) a predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating | - |
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| (noun) a model of a bodily form (especially of a person) | - |
| (noun) a decorative or artistic work | Synonyms: design, pattern |
| (noun) the impression produced by a person | - |
| (noun) the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals | Synonyms: number |
| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
| (noun) a unitary percept having structure and coherence that is the object of attention and that stands out against a ground | - |
| (noun) a diagram or picture illustrating textual material | Synonyms: fig |
| (noun) language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Synonyms: figure of speech, image, trope |
| (noun) a well-known or notable person | Synonyms: name, public figure |
| (noun) an amount of money expressed numerically | - |
| (noun) one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration | Synonyms: digit |
| (noun) a combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape | - |
| figurehead | (noun) figure on the bow of some sailing vessels | - |
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| (noun) a person used as a cover for some questionable activity | Synonyms: front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman |
| figurer | (noun) an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) | Synonyms: calculator, computer, estimator, reckoner |
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| figurine | (noun) a small carved or molded figure | Synonyms: statuette |
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| figuring | (noun) problem solving that involves numbers or quantities | Synonyms: calculation, computation, reckoning |
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| figwort | (noun) any of numerous tall coarse woodland plants of the genus Scrophularia | - |
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| filigree | (noun) delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire) | Synonyms: filagree, fillagree |
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| firefighter | (noun) a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires | Synonyms: fire-eater, fire fighter, fireman |
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| firelight | (noun) the light of a fire (especially in a fireplace) | - |
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| firelighter | (noun) (a piece of) a substance that burns easily and can be used to start a coal or coke fire | - |
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| fishgig | (noun) an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish | Synonyms: fizgig, gig, lance, spear |
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| fistfight | (noun) a fight with bare fists | Synonyms: fisticuffs, slugfest |
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| fizgig | (noun) a firework that fizzes as it moves | - |
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| (noun) an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish | Synonyms: fishgig, gig, lance, spear |
| flashlight | (noun) a small portable battery-powered electric lamp | Synonyms: torch |
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| flibbertigibbet | (noun) a female fool | Synonyms: foolish woman |
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| flight | (noun) an instance of traveling by air | Synonyms: flying |
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| (noun) the act of escaping physically | Synonyms: escape |
| (noun) a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports | - |
| (noun) a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next | Synonyms: flight of stairs, flight of steps |
| (noun) passing above and beyond ordinary bounds | - |
| (noun) an air force unit smaller than a squadron | - |
| (noun) a formation of aircraft in flight | - |
| (noun) a flock of flying birds | - |
| (noun) the path followed by an object moving through space | Synonyms: trajectory |
| flightiness | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: arbitrariness, capriciousness, whimsey, whimsicality, whimsy |
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| flightlessness | (noun) The condition of being unable to fly, usually used with birds such as the penguin, ostrich, and emu. | - |
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| floodlight | (noun) light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography | Synonyms: flood, flood lamp, photoflood |
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| flyweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, often the lightest. | - |
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| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 112 pounds | - |
| (noun) weighs no more than 115 pounds | - |
| fogsignal | (noun) a loud low warning signal that can be heard by fogbound ships | Synonyms: foghorn |
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| footlights | (noun) theater light at the front of a stage that illuminate the set and actors | - |
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| foreigner | (noun) a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country | Synonyms: alien, noncitizen, outlander |
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| (noun) someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group | Synonyms: outsider |
| foreignness | (noun) the quality of being alien or not native | Synonyms: curiousness, strangeness |
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| foresight | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresightedness, foresightfulness |
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| (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: farsightedness, prevision, prospicience |
| foresightedness | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresight, foresightfulness |
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| foresightfulness | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresight, foresightedness |
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| forthrightness | (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candidness, candor, candour, directness, frankness |
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| fortnight | (noun) a period of fourteen consecutive days | Synonyms: two weeks |
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| freight | (noun) transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates | Synonyms: freightage |
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| (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, consignment, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment |
| (noun) the charge for transporting something by common carrier | Synonyms: freight rate, freightage |
| freightage | (noun) transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates | Synonyms: freight |
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| (noun) the charge for transporting something by common carrier | Synonyms: freight, freight rate |
| freighter | (noun) a cargo ship | Synonyms: bottom, merchant ship, merchantman |
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| frigate | (noun) a United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser | - |
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| (noun) a medium size square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th centuries | - |
| fright | (noun) an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) | Synonyms: fear, fearfulness |
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| frightening | (noun) the act of inspiring with fear | Synonyms: terrorisation, terrorization |
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| frightfulness | (noun) the quality of being frightful | - |
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| frigidity | (noun) a lack of affection or enthusiasm | Synonyms: chilliness, coldness, coolness, frigidness, iciness |
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| (noun) sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse | Synonyms: frigidness |
| (noun) the absence of heat | Synonyms: cold, coldness, frigidness, low temperature |
| frigidness | (noun) a lack of affection or enthusiasm | Synonyms: chilliness, coldness, coolness, frigidity, iciness |
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| (noun) sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse | Synonyms: frigidity |
| (noun) the absence of heat | Synonyms: cold, coldness, frigidity, low temperature |
| fumigant | (noun) a chemical substance used in fumigation | - |
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| fumigation | (noun) the application of a gas or smoke to something for the purpose of disinfecting it | - |
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| fumigator | (noun) a device that generates a gas for the purpose of disinfecting or eradicating pests | - |
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| (noun) someone whose job is to fumigate | - |
| gaslight | (noun) light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas | - |
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| gelignite | (noun) a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate | Synonyms: gelly |
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| gig | (noun) a booking for musicians | - |
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| (noun) small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood | - |
| (noun) tender that is a light ship's boat; often for personal use of captain | - |
| (noun) long and light rowing boat; especially for racing | - |
| (noun) an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish | Synonyms: fishgig, fizgig, lance, spear |
| (noun) a cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; used when fish are not biting | - |
| gigabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 megabits or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bits | Synonyms: Gb, Gbit |
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| gigabyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes | Synonyms: G, GB, GiB, gibibyte |
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| (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes | Synonyms: G, GB |
| gigacycle | (noun) 1,000,000,000 periods per second | Synonyms: Gc, GHz, gigacycle per second, gigahertz |
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| gigaflop | (noun) a unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion floating point operations per second. | Synonyms: billion floating point operations per second, GFLOPS |
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| gigahertz | (noun) 1,000,000,000 periods per second | Synonyms: Gc, GHz, gigacycle, gigacycle per second |
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| gigantism | (noun) excessive largeness of stature | Synonyms: giantism |
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| (noun) excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland | Synonyms: giantism, overgrowth |
| gigatonne | (noun) a unit of weight equivalent to 1 billion tonnes. | Synonyms: Gt |
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| giggle | (noun) a foolish or nervous laugh | - |
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| giggler | (noun) a person who laughs nervously | Synonyms: titterer |
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| gigolo | (noun) a man who has sex with and is supported by a woman | - |
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| gigot | (noun) lamb leg suitable for roasting | Synonyms: leg of lamb |
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| gigue | (noun) music in three-four time for dancing a jig | Synonyms: jig |
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| globigerina | (noun) marine protozoan having a rounded shell with spiny processes | - |
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| gravedigger | (noun) a person who earns a living by digging graves | - |
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| grigri | (noun) an African amulet | Synonyms: greegree, gres-gris |
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| gunfight | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunplay, shootout |
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| gunsight | (noun) a sight used for aiming a gun | Synonyms: gun-sight |
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| hayrig | (noun) a frame attached to a wagon to increase the amount of hay it can carry | Synonyms: hayrack |
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| headlight | (noun) a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive | Synonyms: headlamp |
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| heavyweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, often the heaviest. | Synonyms: super heavyweight |
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| (noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, titan |
| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds | - |
| (noun) a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds | - |
| (noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: giant, hulk, whale |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds | - |
| height | (noun) the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top | Synonyms: tallness |
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| (noun) (of a standing person) the distance from head to foot | Synonyms: stature |
| (noun) elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface | Synonyms: altitude |
| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
| heights | (noun) a high place | Synonyms: high |
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| high | (noun) a forward gear with a gear ratio that gives the greatest vehicle velocity for a given engine speed | Synonyms: high gear |
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| (noun) a lofty level or position or degree | - |
| (noun) a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12 | Synonyms: high school, highschool, senior high, senior high school |
| (noun) a high place | Synonyms: heights |
| (noun) an air mass of higher than normal pressure | - |
| (noun) a state of altered consciousness induced by alcohol or narcotics | - |
| (noun) a state of sustained elation | - |
| highball | (noun) a mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass | - |
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| highbinder | (noun) a corrupt politician | - |
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| highboard | (noun) a high diving board | - |
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| highboy | (noun) a tall chest of drawers divided into two sections and supported on four legs | Synonyms: tallboy |
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| highbrow | (noun) a person of intellectual or erudite tastes | - |
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